ARM4SNS

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Introduction

In general, what is Reputation Information good for?

• Value Preposition: To WHOM does reputation provide WHAT value?
  • Where can the availability of reputation information help to make things better?
  • How does it help there (what does 'better' mean)?
• Limitations: What can Reputation Information NOT provide?

What is Reputation?

• a 1,2,n dimensional value?
• a discrete or a rational number?
• comparable, combinable?

Userfriendly submission/use of Reputation Information

• Tools for making submission of reputation information user friendly
• Tools for making use (application) of reputation information user friendly
• Acceptability of Reputation Information by end users

Anonymously Supplying/Storing/Using Reputation Information

• using a tusted reputation provider who must keep all information secret
• make it algorithmically impossible to derive a reputation information supplier's / user's identiy.

Toolset ... for building Reputation-based Solutions

Architecture for a Reputation Information Management System

• building blocks for building a reputation management system
  • what functions do the building blocks provide?
  • how do they depend on each other?
  • alternative building blocks for similar functionality
• sample scenario for illustrating building block's functionality and interactions

Method for integrating Reputation Information into a product/solution

• Given an application and given a reputation management system, are there common techniques for integrating the two?

Working Packages

• which building block?
• which requirements?
• expected outcome?

State of the art

• Literature survey
• Conferences to watch
• Companies active in this area